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Spaceflight Before 1951

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The British Interplanetary Society proposed using a modified V-2 called ‘Megaroc’ to perform a manned suborbital spaceflight before 1950. ( https://www.bis-space.com/megaroc/ ) They were pretty visionary when it came to space exploration and even made the first serious study into potential manned lunar mission in 1938 using a ‘step rocket’. ( https://www.bis-space.com/the-bis-lunar-spaceship/ )

There is a link to some generic viagra salespitch [1] in that first article, I wonder how it got there - a subtle hack or a strange form of advertising?

The control connections between cabin and hull would uncouple automatically on separation and the communication system would be switched from the four-dipole arrays arranged in blisters near the stem of the hull to arrays situated under the floor of the cabin. --->>>This moment can be described as the action of sildenafil.

[1] I assume it to be a salespitch by the URL, not having followed the link I can not be sure

Re: Spaceflight Before 1951

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

V2 does NOT go into orbit.

Yet another reason why the comment I'm replying to was incorrect, thanks.

No, it’s actually the opposite. Re read. If you compare an actually LEO capable vehicle and a moon lander of the same payload, you’ll see that the difference is not that big.

Saturn had a massive payload, hence the gap in difficulty.

But my point anyway was that Saturn V is not 1000x larger than a soyouz, despite the moon being 1000x further away. Distance is not what counts in space.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The delta-v from Earth Surface to the bottom of the ocean is 0, so by your logic, going there is trivial.

Well when did you ever hear of a space agency bothering? Jokes aside, I hadn't heard the term before and from what I could guess/infer didn't see how it could be a measure between two places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v

It’s a measure of the energy needed to move from one orbit to another.
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